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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#2351

Ana Cecilia Blum

#95501

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ana Cecilia Blum is an Ecuadorian writer and journalist. She studied Political and Social Sciences at the Vicente Rocafuerte Lay University of Guayaquil. She worked for several media and investigating about literature at the Catholic University of Guayaquil, Andean University of Quito and the FACSO University of Guayaquil. She currently lives between Ecuador and the United States.

#2352

Bernadette O'Rourke

#181456

Overall Influence

Bernadette O'Rourke is an Irish linguist from County Clare. She is currently Professor of Sociolinguistics and Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow and is a specialist in the construction of difference through language and social inequalities. Her research focuses on "neophones" or new speakers of minority languages such as Irish Gaelic and Galician. She has also published and commented on the assumptions of monolinguism in Great Britain, particularly in the context of Brexit, public policy related to minority languages in Ireland, the UK, and Europe.

#2353

Judith Shatin

#169795

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Judith Shatin is an American composer. Currently, she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia. She also founded and is Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music. She holds degrees from Douglass College, the Juilliard School, and Princeton University, at which institution she was a pupil of Milton Babbitt.

#2354

Rawinia Higgins

#125085

Overall Influence

Rawinia Ruth Higgins is a New Zealand academic whose research focuses on Māori language and culture. Research Higgins' Master's thesis at the University of Otago was on the nature of transmission of oral histories, while her 2004 PhD thesis, , was on the identity politics of female chin tattoos. She was the Head of School at Te Kawa a Māui, School of Maori Studies at Victoria University and was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori at Victoria University of Wellington in 2016.

#2355

Helen Kwalwasser

#175155

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

Helen Kwalwasser, born October 11, 1927, died May 22, 2017, was a professor of violin at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. Helen Kwalwasser was a world-renowned violin soloist and violin teacher. In addition to spending nearly 50 years as a faculty member at the Boyer College, she had performed as a soloist and chamber musician with the New York Chamber Soloists and her music has been recorded for Odyssey Records, Vanguard, Westminster Records, Delos Records and Columbia Records. Her own accomplishments have been recognized at Temple with the Creative Achievement Awar...

#2356

Lidija Horvat-Dunjko

#185882

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Lidija Horvat-Dunjko is a Croatian soprano vocalist and a Docent at the Zagreb Academy of Music. She was awarded the highest Croatian national decoration for her achievement in culture, the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić. Her opera roles include The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Gilda in Rigoletto. Along with Magazin, she finished sixth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, performing the song "Nostalgija", which achieved success in the country at the time.

#2357

Jeanne Bamberger

#130219

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Jeanne Bamberger is the American Professor Emerita of Music and Urban Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include music cognitive development, music theory and performance, teacher development, and the design of text and software materials that foster these areas of development.

#2358

Ida Carroll

#173711

Overall Influence

1905 - 1995 (90 years)

Ida Gertrude Carroll was a British music educator, university administrator, double bassist, and composer. From 1956 through 1972 she was President of the Northern School of Music, and she played a central role in overseeing the merger of that school with the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973. She was the first Dean of Management of the RNCM from 1973 through 1976. As a composer she wrote several works for the double bass which have become a part of the standard repertoire for that instrument. In 1964 she was awarded an OBE.

#2359

Amparo Hurtado Albir

#63766

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Amparo Hurtado Albir is a Spanish professor, translator and researcher. She has studied modern Philology at the University of Valencia. She is currently a professor of Traductology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is considered an essential reference for Translation Theory and for the academic formation of professionals of Language. Hurtado Albir is also the principal researcher in PACTE research group.

#2360

Hedwig Fassbender

#179946

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Hedwig Fassbender is a German operatic mezzo-soprano and academic voice teacher. She has appeared in leading roles at major European opera houses, including some soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde and Sieglinde.

#2361

Olga Blinova

#167887

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Olga Iosifovna Blinova was a Soviet and Russian linguist. The daughter of Iosif Ignatievich Leytan , deputy director of the Omskaya Pravda publishing house, and Filiziya Vikentyevna Leytan , Blinova had three brothers. She graduated from the Tomsk State University, where she later served as a professor of Philology. Blinova died in Tomsk on 2 July 2020, aged 89.

#2362

Cathy Lee Crane

#185643

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Cathy Lee Crane is a North American experimental films director and producer, based in Ithaca, New York. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013. Her films include Pasolini's Last Words, focusing on the death and legacy of filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

#2363

Sara Jobin

#161457

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Sara Jobin ['JOHBIHN] is an American conductor. She is currently the principal conductor of the Center for Contemporary Opera. Early life and education Jobin was born in Norwood, Massachusetts and grew up in various suburbs of Boston and New York. At age 16, she was accepted into Harvard College where she attended from 1987 to 1992 and earned a bachelor's degree in Music and Women's Studies. During her time at Harvard, she would take private piano lessons with Patricia Zander, a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music. Between 1992-1996, she studied at the Pierre Monteux Scho...

#2364

Hildegard Westerkamp

#104669

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Hildegard Westerkamp is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher and sound ecologist of German origin. She studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg, West Germany from 1966 to 1968 and moved to Canada in 1975. She received a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia in 1972 and a Master of Arts from Simon Fraser University in 1988. She taught acoustic communication at Simon Fraser University from 1982 to 1991.

#2365

Ruth Posselt

#181493

Overall Influence

1911 - 2007 (96 years)

Ruth Pierce Posselt was an American violinist and educator. Studies and early career Posselt studied violin with Emanuel Ondříček, a former student of Eugène Ysaÿe, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1923. She won the Schubert Memorial Prize in 1929, toured France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union in the early 1930s and made her first tour of the United States in 1935. She performed with the National Orchestral Association, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She was invited to perform at The White House by President and Mrs.

#2366

Joan Faber McAlister

#168444

Overall Influence

Joan Faber McAlister is an American rhetorician, associate professor and researcher of women's studies in communication. Her research primarily focuses on how images and space communicate messages in public culture through perceptions of beauty and critical theory. From 2014 until 2017, McAlister served as the editor of Women's Studies in Communication.

#2367

Frances Blaisdell

#173990

Overall Influence

1912 - 2009 (97 years)

Frances Blaisdell was an American flautist, widely recognized as one of the first female professional flautists. She held positions with the National Orchestral Association, the New Opera Company and the New Friends of Music. In addition, she was the first woman to appear as a soloist and wind player in concert with the New York Philharmonic. In addition to playing, she also held teaching positions at the Manhattan School of Music, New York University, Dalcroze School, Mannes School of Music, and Stanford University where she taught for over 35 years. Blaisdell's teachers included Georges Bar...

#2368

Nikka Costa

#171532

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Domenica "Nikka" Costa is an American singer whose music combines elements of pop, soul, and blues. She also had a career as a child singer starting in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of music producer Don Costa.

#2369

Edith Borroff

#183984

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Edith Borroff was an American musicologist and composer. Her compositions include over 60 commissioned works, including pieces for the stage; for her primary instrument—the organ; choral, vocal, and orchestral music; and several critical editions of works by previous composers such as Jubilate by J.-J. Cassanéa de Mondonville . She also wrote at least 7 books, including the textbook Music in Europe and the United States: a History , as well as various peer-reviewed articles and publications.

#2370

Monica Ulmanu

#190078

Overall Influence

Monica Ulmanu is a Romanian journalist and graphics editor. She has worked as a graphics editor for The Washington Post since 2018, where she has specialised in working on climate and health-related topics.

#2371

Linda Aldoory

#121549

Overall Influence

Linda Aldoory is an American academic administrator and heath communications professor. She has served as the dean of the American University College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of health studies since July 2022.

#2372

Kathy Smith

#175217

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Kathy Smith is an Australian independent animator, painter, new media artist, and Professor with the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Smith chaired the John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts from 2004 - 2009 & 2010 - 2014.

#2373

Phoebe Carrai

#182836

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Phoebe Carrai is an American cellist. Carrai studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where she earned both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. In 1979, Carrai undertook post-graduate studies in Historical Performance Practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

#2374

Bahira Abdulatif

Bahira Abdulatif

#102889

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Bahira Abdulatif Yasin is an Iraqi writer, translator and professor living in Madrid. She's an associate professor at Autonomous University of Madrid's Arabic and Islamic Studies department. An expert in Spanish philology, Abdulatif has also served in the Faculty of Languages at the University of Baghdad. She came to Madrid after United Nations imposed Sanctions against Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait in 1990. She has also taught at Complutense University of Madrid, University of Salamanca and written fictional works in Arabic.

#2375

Martha Blackman

#185438

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Martha Elizabeth Blackman was an American viola da gamba player and lutenist. Biography Blackman was born in Dallas, Texas. She studied cello at the Juilliard School under Leonard Rose. Receiving a Fulbright Scholarship , she studied the viola da gamba, first in Munich and then at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She returned to the USA in 1954 and appeared as a leading gamba soloist, and also joining the New York Pro Musica working under Noah Greenberg from 1954 to 1961, during which she did most of her recording. Together with Paul Maynard and Bernard Krainis, she formed the New York Pro...

#2376

Bonnie Gritton

#177383

Overall Influence

Bonnie Gritton is an American classical pianist. As well as performing in concert, she teaches piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Utah. Dr. Gritton made her debut performance at age 15, when she played Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, accompanied by the Utah Symphony Orchestra. She has performed in concerts in Europe, Israel, and the U.S. Recent tours have taken her to Greece, Spain and Hawaii.

#2377

Claudia Pinza Bozzolla

#169917

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Claudia Pinza Bozzolla was an Argentine-American operatic soprano, vocal coach, and voice teacher of Italian origin. As a singer she performed in operas throughout Italy and the United States, including appearances at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, and the San Francisco Opera.

#2378

Joan Myers Brown

#101016

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Joan Myers Brown is an American dance instructor. Early life and education Brown is the only child of Nellie Lewis, a nuclear scientist, and Julius Myers, a chef and restaurateur, born on 25 December 1931 in Philadelphia. Native to both Philadelphia and North Carolina, she grew up mainly on 47th Street and Paschall Avenue of Southwest Philadelphia.

#2379

Andréa Sardinha Taschetto

#187104

Overall Influence

Andréa Sardinha Taschetto or A. S. Taschetto; Andréa Taschetto is a climate change scientist at the University of New South Wales, and winner of the Dorothy Hill award. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2016. Her research has contributed to improved understanding of the role of oceans, on climate variability at regional scales, and from seasonal to mulit-decade timescales. This research also has assisted with future climate projections.

#2380

Ruth-Margret Pütz

#183438

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Ruth-Margret Pütz was a German operatic coloratura soprano and an academic voice teacher. She was a member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart for many decades, a frequent guest at the Vienna State Opera, and appeared at other major international opera houses and festivals. One of her signature roles was Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She is regarded as one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s.

#2381

Anna Bofill Leví

Anna Bofill Leví

#148200

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Anna Bofill Leví is a Catalan Spanish pianist, architect and composer. Life Anna Bofill Leví was born on 25 April 1944 in Barcelona, Spain, daughter of Catalan Emilio Bofill y Benessat, and Maria Levi, a Venetian of Jewish origin. Her brother is the also architect Ricardo Bofill. She has two daughters and is married to María Cinta Montagut, a Spanish female writer.

#2382

Diane Whitehouse

#138915

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Diane Whitehouse is a Canadian painter, professor and art activist. Education In 1962, Whitehouse earned her NDD at the Birmingham College of Art, and in the 1980s did post-graduate work at Bergen Kunsthåndverkskole, Norway. She became a Canadian citizen in 1972.

#2383

Gerhild Romberger

#174718

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Gerhild Romberger is a German mezzo-soprano and contralto concert singer. Career Born in Sögel, Germany, Romberger studied music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, and then voice with Heiner Eckels. She graduated in 1990 with the artistic diploma and took the concert exam in 1992. She took master classes with Hartmut Höll, Annie Schoonus, and Mitsuko Shirai.

#2384

Rita Kuczynski

#88971

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Rita Kuczynski is a German author, philosopher and editorialist. Life Rita Kuczynski was born in Neidenburg, Masuren. She grew up in East and West Berlin and studied music from 1956 to 1962. She undertook a master's in piano at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. From 1965 to 1970, she studied philosophy at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin. In 1971, she became an assistant at the Institute for Philosophy in the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. In the following year, she married Thomas Kuczynski. She received the Promotion A from the Academy in 1975, with a doctorate on Hegel.

#2385

Kathleen McGuire

#181929

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Dr. Kathleen Alison McGuire is a choral and orchestral conductor, arranger, composer, music educator, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Known also for her work with social justice and human rights organizations, from 2000 to 2010 she served as the first female artistic director and conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus – the world's first openly gay choral organization – and in 2010 she established Singers of the Street: a choir of people affected by homelessness in San Francisco. She became a US citizen in 2011 and, in 2013, returned to Australia to serve as director of music at Queen's College and co-artistic director of the School of Hard Knocks.

#2386

Michal Aviad

#178780

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Michal Aviad is an Israeli director, script writer, producer and senior lecturer at the Department of Cinema and Television, Tel Aviv University. Biography Michal Aviad was born in Jerusalem in 1955. Her mother was an immigrant from Italy and her father an immigrant from Hungary. She graduated in literature and philosophy from Tel Aviv University. In 1984, she received a Master of Film from San Francisco State University. Between 1981 and 1990 she lived and worked in San Francisco where she made her first film. She is a senior lecturer at the department of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University.

#2387

Ada Gentile

#179115

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ada Gentile is an Italian pianist and composer. Life Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi. She has lectured at Northwestern University, Juilliard School, Wayne State University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and also widely in Europe and Asia. She was Deputy Director of St. Cecilia Conservatory from 1999 to 2005, and has been instrumental in organizing a number of music festivals.

#2388

Sonja L. Lanehart

#184999

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Sonja L. Lanehart is an American linguist and professor of linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona who has advanced the study of language use in the African American community. Her work as a researcher, author, and editor includes African American English, education, literacy, identity, language variation, women's languages, intersectionality, and inclusivity within the African American community. Lanehart's sociolinguistic orientation prioritizes language as a phenomenon influenced by sociocultural and historical factors. She also utilizes the perspectives of Critical Race Theory and Black feminism in her work.

#2389

Brooke Medicine Eagle

#142279

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Brooke "Medicine Eagle" Edwards is an American author, singer/songwriter and teacher, specializing in her interpretations of Native American religions. She frequently teaches workshops at New Age and other events.

#2390

Ellen Thomas

#148325

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Ellen Thomas is a Sierra Leonean-British actress, known for her roles as Liz Webbe in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers and Claudette Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Career In Teachers, Thomas played Liz Webbe, a school secretary, and appeared in all four series, from 2001 to 2004. She was a regular cast member in BBC Radio 4's Clare in the Community and in BBC Three's Coming of Age, in which she portrayed the principal. For her role in Rev, she was nominated for "Best TV Comedy Performance" at the Black International Film Festival and Music Video & Screen Awards.

#2391

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker

#179299

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age and went on to receive BA, MM and DMA degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music, where she studied under Arnold Franchetti. She married composer David Burton on September 12, 1969; they divorced in 1974. She taught music for fourteen years at Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Conservatory and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and then moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and went to work as a full-time composer.

#2392

Judie Bamber

#183973

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Judie Bamber is an American artist in Los Angeles. Her often representational paintings explore themes of gender, sexuality, temporality, and memory. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design and is best known for Are You My Mother?, featured in New American Paintings in 2003 and 2004. Her paintings, watercolors, and graffiti emphasize women's pleasure and permeate her family history.

#2393

Jeanne Leblanc

#187768

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Jeanne Leblanc is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose full-length directoral debut Isla Blanca was released in 2018. Career She previously directed the short films Sortie de secours , Le temps des récoltes , One Night with You [Une nuit avec toi] , Sullivan's Applicant and Carla en 10 secondes .

#2394

Mina F. Miller

#183006

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Mina Florence Miller , credited as Mina F. Miller and Mina Miller, is an American classical pianist, writer, and founder and artistic director of Music of Remembrance in Seattle, Washington. Career Miller studied piano performance under Artur Balsam at the Conservatory of Manhattan School of Music, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Music at New York University. She became Associate Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky in 1977, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1984 and was named a University Research Professor for the year 1988–89. She has performed in solo recitals in England and Sca...

#2395

Gwen Thompson

#180919

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Gwendoline Linda Louise Thompson is a Canadian violinist and music educator. She has been a member of two notable chamber music ensembles with whom she has made several commercial recordings: the Masterpiece Trio and Viveza, the latter of which she formed in 1989 with Lee Duckles , Wilmer Fawcett , Mark Koenig , and Linda Lee Thomas . She has also appeared in concert as a soloist with several Canadian orchestras, including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Symphony and the British Columbia Chamber Orchestra.

#2396

Katrin Laur

#180363

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Katrin Laur is an author, film director, and professor who currently lives in Estonia and Germany. In 1973 in Soviet-occupied Tallinn she graduated from a school that gave an excellent command of English , she then had different jobs. Laur learned photography at the Tallinn Technical School N°2 and studied philosophy for one year at the Moscow State University. From 1977 to 1982 Laur studied feature film directing at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography , in the masterclass of Sergey Gerasimov, and graduated in 1982 with a diploma summa cum laude . After graduating from the film schoo...

#2397

Olga Kern

#158284

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Olga Vladimirovna Kern is a Russian-American classical pianist. She became an American citizen in 2016. Early life Olga Kern was born on 23 April 1975 in Moscow into a family of musicians with the last name of Pushechnikova. Her parents are both pianists, and she is related to the Russian socialite and memoirist Anna Petrovna Kern. Her great-grandmother was the mezzo-soprano Vera Pushechnikova. Kern began studying piano at age five with Professor Evgeny Timakin at the Central Music School of Moscow and gave her first concert at age seven in the same city. She won her first international competition, the Concertino Praga Competition, at age 11 in the Czech Republic.

#2398

Betty Jackson King

#183539

Overall Influence

1928 - 1994 (66 years)

Betty Jackson King was an American pianist, singer, teacher, choral conductor, and composer. She was best known for her vocal works. Biography King was born in 1928 in Chicago. She first started learning music from her mother, Gertrude Jackson Taylor. King's father, Reverend Frederick D. Jackson a pastor at the Community Church of Woodlawn, helped expose her to church hymns and spirituals. Along with her mother and sister Catherine, she sang in the Jacksonian Trio. In 1969 when King began teaching at Wildwood High School in New Jersey, she integrated the high school's public school teaching s...

#2399

Sigrid Norris

#182390

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Sigrid Norris is a New Zealand linguist and academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After an undergraduate in Russian literature and a 2002 PhD titled 'A theoretical framework for multimodal discourse analysis presented via the analysis of identity construction of two women living in Germany' both from the Georgetown University, she moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor.

#2400

Dana Reason

#133314

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Dana Reason is a Canadian composer, recording artist, keyboardist, producer, arranger, and sound artist working at the intersections of contemporary musical genres and intermedia practices. She appears on more than 17 commercially released recordings, including as a member of The Space Between trio with American electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros. She has also performed with Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, George E. Lewis, Tim Berne, Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, DJ Spooky, and Joe McPhee.

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